So, any Mother/Earthbound fans on GBATemp?

[redfalcon]

Everyone got angry that Xenoblade and The Last Story weren't coming over to American and were like "OMG THE FANBASE IS HUGE WE'D MAKE YOU RICH." And last time I checked, both games didn't do too well overseas.

According to VGChartz Xenoblade sold ~750.000 worldwide, which isn't too bad for a non Mario/Pokemon/FF/.. game. Considering that Golden Sun: DD has only around half a million sold. But yeah, releasing a niche title could very well result in a financial loss.

 

[Guild McCommunist]

Everyone got angry that Xenoblade and The Last Story weren't coming over to American and were like "OMG THE FANBASE IS HUGE WE'D MAKE YOU RICH." And last time I checked, both games didn't do too well overseas.

According to VGChartz Xenoblade sold ~750.000 worldwide, which isn't too bad for a non Mario/Pokemon/FF/.. game. Considering that Golden Sun: DD has only around half a million sold. But yeah, releasing a niche title could very well result in a financial loss.

1) It's VGChartz.
2) For a Nintendo-published game, yeah, that's pretty bad. You honestly think they'll push another Golden Sun or another Xenoblade out there? If they try to push Mother again, it'll be just that.

 

[Deleted_171835]

@redfalcon Xenoblade definitely did not sell 750,000 worldwide. That's just typical VGChartz bullshit.

@emigre Xenoblade ≠ Xenosaga

1) It's VGChartz.
2) For a Nintendo-published game, yeah, that's pretty bad. You honestly think they'll push another Golden Sun or another Xenoblade out there? If they try to push Mother again, it'll be just that.

Reggie said that Xenoblade sold quite well. And in the UK, it was the fourth best-selling game on the charts in its first week.

Just because every game doesn't do Mario or COD numbers doesn't mean it failed. It still made a reasonable profit.

 

[emigre]

@emigre Xenoblade ≠ Xenosaga

I know Xenoblade has no link to the past Xeno games bar the Takahashi link. I was being a pretentious dick.

And in the UK, it was the fourth best-selling game on the charts in its first week.

Seventh actually. I remember because I pre-ordered the game and was curious about its sales.

 

[Deleted-236924]

Compare Xenoblade to the mother series, it only had 1 game while Mother had 3 games and they were all successful, i think the fan base of mother series is bigger than Xenoblade and nintendo is losing money for it.

Saying "It has a bigger fanbase than Xenoblade" isn't much of an accomplishment.

Even then, when was the last time a Mother game hit US shores? It has no new brand recognition. Yeah, Nintendo has brought brands with little recognition back (Kid Icarus) but not a RPG. Kid Icarus received a good and popular revival because A) it's an action game (which are popular in EU/US), B) Kid Icarus already had some brand recognition (his two games were released in the US/EU and Brawl helped a lot), and C) it's not a RPG. If you expect a RPG with little brand recognition to new audiences, let alone a Japanese turn-based RPG, then you might as well throw that money into a fireplace since you'll at least get some warmth from it.

There's a really bad case of tunnel vision that comes with GBAtemp-like communities. Yeah, most of us know what Mother is and are able to play them all in English, but for everyone else, who isn't on a community based around flashcards, homebrew, and hacks, it's completely foreign.

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That's all of my contributions to this thread.

Good point, I never thought about that.

 

[chartube12]

Fuck Nintendo's "Mother"! Bring back Startropics instead!

 

[BORTZ]

Eh i could really care less about the series.

 

[emigre]

Eh i could really care less about the series.

Applaud this man for having the courage to express his apathy at a overrated game franchise, at a period when hipsters wank over it. Applaud him I say...Applaud...I...Say...

 

[Yepi69]

Fuck Nintendo's "Mother"! Bring back Startropics instead!

then why did you replied if you dont like the mother series?

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[emigre]

Does anyone else feel Earthbound be better if it were set in realistic war-like environment where you shoot things in a first person perspective, to stop some modern international terrorists?

 

[Rydian]

I like the game, and how much I like it doesn't depend on how popular it was. I originally checked it out because a modern-times RPG seemed so different from the type of RPGs I had been playing until then.

 

[DaggerV]

I enjoyed the hell out of Earthbound on the SNES, I often play it after beating Chrono Trigger, a once a year tradition. Mother 3, not so much, but it wasn't bad. Mother (Zero? Whatever the NES translation was) I never got around to sitting down and play.






That's my contribution. I wouldn't mind continuation, I'd buy and play it.

 

[BORTZ]

I would not pay for it. Its an old game and just not anything all that great.

 

[Gahars]

Does anyone else feel Earthbound be better if it were set in realistic war-like environment where you shoot things in a first person perspective, to stop some modern international terrorists?

Only if that environment is a Middle Eastern desert.

 

[CCNaru]

Also, it's games (fan translations) like this that make me question the past excuses offered by Nintendo.. "we won't be translating such and such game as it's too difficult." The Bible was translated into every language know to mankind, then a simple game can be (even if roughly) translated too. I realse there are meanings, ideas, that do not translate directly, but nothing exists in one part of this world that does not also exist in another (more or less)

Bible is the most sold fiction in the whole world...lots of money to be made.

also I've seen streams of this game but I don't really like it I think it's a bit overrated

 

[Yepi69]

I would not pay for it. Its an old game and just not anything all that great.

play it then you see

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[Guild McCommunist]

mother 3 was like a revolution, earthbound zero is a bit boring, but earthbound was EPIC

Eh i could really care less about the series.

your opinion is not really useful here.

Thought I'd point out how his opinion "is not really useful" but yours is.

Might as well name this the "Earthbound Circlejerk Thread".

I honestly don't see what's so great, they never brought anything important to the genre. It's a bland combat system and an okay story. The franchise would really be considered second rate if it wasn't for branding and the fan translation.

 

[Yepi69]

mother 3 was like a revolution, earthbound zero is a bit boring, but earthbound was EPIC

Eh i could really care less about the series.

your opinion is not really useful here.

Thought I'd point out how his opinion "is not really useful" but yours is.

Might as well name this the "Earthbound Circlejerk Thread".

I honestly don't see what's so great, they never brought anything important to the genre. It's a bland combat system and an okay story. The franchise would really be considered second rate if it wasn't for branding and the fan translation.

its actually dumb to post hate messages towards a game on a fan's thread

 

[retrodoctor]

Mother 3 is my favorite game. I can't really think of any other RPGs with a strong story based in "modern" times like that one.

 

[Guild McCommunist]

its actually dumb to post hate messages towards a game on a fan's thread

It's dumber to not allow all views of the game. Bortz wasn't even doing anything wrong, he stated his opinion politely and was told it was basically not allowed.

Also it's a community thread, not a fans-only thread.